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• Financial crisis' victim No. 1: the world's poor
In impoverished Haiti, funding for projects to rebuild from tropical storms that killed nearly 800 people and destroyed more than half the nation's agriculture hangs in the balance. "It's too soon to tell yet because we haven't heard back positively ...
• Obama-supporting nun, 106, shocked by fame
The order, whose main work is education, runs schools in 26 countries, including the United States, Canada, Haiti, Cuba, Mexico, Pakistan and India. It was founded by St Claudine Thevenet in Lyon, France in 1818. It now has some 1,400 members around ...
• Egypt moves to appease angry workers
On Monday, protesters angered by high food prices flooded the streets of Haiti's capital forcing businesses and schools to close as unrest spread from the countryside. The U.N. humanitarian chief John Holmes warned Tuesday that the poor worldwide are ...
• Parents' financial stress trickles down to kids
This is a great time to talk about what very poor countries are like and that we are nowhere near that,” she says. “Unlike the people of Haiti and sub-Saharan Africa, we have an abundance of fresh food to eat, clean water to drink, jobs to work ...
• Haiti raises storm death toll to nearly 800
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The official death toll from four storms that ravaged Haiti this summer has nearly doubled to some 800 people, authorities said Friday. Civil defense director Maria-Alta Jean Baptiste said in an interview with The Associated ...